Lina Khan

thumb|Lina Khan in 2021 Lina Khan (born March 3, 1989) is a British-born American legal scholar serving as chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission since 2021. While a student at Yale Law School, she became known for her work in antitrust and competition law in the United States after publishing the influential essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". She was nominated by President Joe Biden to the Commission in March 2021, and has served since June 2021 following her confirmation. She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School. Quotes [About unfair methods of competition:] What are the dimentions on which firms are or are not permitted to compete? Should we be having firms competing on who can surveil users the best or who can undercut their workers the most, or do we want to be having companies compete on dimentions or privacy that are actually better serving consumers or workers? "FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Progressive Agenda for Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law" (at 36m53s), New Economic Thinking on YouTube, 28 October 2022. External links Category:Heads of United States federal agencies Category:Legal scholars Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Women in law Category:Women from the United States Category:Yale University alumni Category:Columbia University faculty Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:1989 births Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:Living people Category:People from London